AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF REPLACEMENT VM SERVERS

Background: Sauk County employs a virtual server infrastructure which consists of a number of physical computing devices that function as a single virtual machine (VM).  This integrated system carries the application workload for all of the County’s locally hosted applications.  These servers provide the computing power for this system at the primary data center located in the Courthouse Annex.

Due to the integrated nature of virtual infrastructures, adherence to replacement cycles for system components is critical, as the various physical components must be similar in architecture.  To accomplish this, the MIS Department includes these replacements in the Sauk County Capital Improvement Plan, which projects these costs over a ten year span for inclusion in the annual budget.